First Iran and Now Syria. Why Does Obama Protect Violent anti-Israel Regimes?

by Farid Ghadry

I just wrote an email to a friend in which I stated:

“For the first-generation American that I am, It’s very hard to watch my people die like flies and the world just keep paying us lip service. It’s Obama, the Arab League, Erdogan, the Russians, the Mullahs, and the Chinese. It seems innocent Syrians had more invisible enemies before even firing one bullet in self-defense.”

But of all the above named, with the exception of the barbaric Assad, President Obama is the only one with no excuses unless one observes a pattern forming.

The Russians are protecting their 50-year investment in the Assads, the Chinese are playing international politics and creating another Darfur seems less important than their factories churning exportable products, the Mullahs are Assad’s Siamese twins, the Arab League is in business to protect the ruling families at the expense of who else but the Arab flocks, and Erdogan is content to sell Syria in return for the Islamists in Egypt and Libya.

But why is President Obama so adamant about not helping the Iranian and the Syrian revolutions when he helped the Tunisians, the Egyptians, and the Libyans? Is it because new governments in Syria and Iran will not create more problems for Israel than the existing ones? Even those he helped with their freedom, two of the three have become staunch enemies to Israel. When a pattern forms, one must ask the tough questions.

Why do the Syrian people have to pay such a high price for the President’s steady hand of attempting to harm the interests of one country at the expense of theirs and four more? What do Syrians have to do with Israel or his own personal journey?

Every month or so, Reuters or AP publish a story about the White House finally deciding to arm the rebels. Needless to say, they are getting blank leaks. Have no illusions, Washington is in Defcon 1 when it comes to spin on Syria.

Speaking of spin, the US State Department, the main opposition to the Syrian opposition and to helping Syrians defend themselves, established “Friends of Syria”, which is another grand meeting with grand entrances and grand speeches but no action. Not even a humanitarian action. Generally speaking, when it comes to heavy PR by the US government, exchange big words with their antonyms when you fail to understand the logic of an action or its purpose.

The killings in Syria won’t go away and it seems President Obama will not be distracted from his singular obsession with Israel. If our President is willing to establish Islamist governments in the Middle East or shore-up stealthily Israel’s enemies at the expense of the Syrian and the Iranian peoples, then I cannot fathom what he will do if he gets elected another four years with nothing to lose.

“And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?” – Gibran Khalil Gibran, passage from The Prophet.

Farid Ghadry

Source: http://ghadry.com/2012/02/22/first-iran-and-now-syria-why-does-obama-protect-violent-anti-israel-regimes/

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